Metallic counter-stiffener for boots or shoes



(ModeL) A. W. BLAKESLEE. METALLIC COUNT-ER STIFFENER FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

'No 268,073. Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED W. BLAKESLEE, OF LOOKE, MICHIGAN.

METALLIC COUNTER-STIFFENER FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,073, dated November 28, 1882,

Application filed March 23, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED W. BLAKES- LEE, of Locke, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Counters for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of devices known as metallic counters, audit consists in the peculiar construction of the device, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein my' invention is shown in perspective, A represents the side walls of a metallic counter, preferably made of malleable iron. The walls are provided at their lower edge with an inwardlyprojecting flange, 11, and with a connecting cross-bar, a, the inner edge of the flange b being bevcled'toward the bottom, so as to give a gradual curve to the insole of a shoe when in use. It will be seen that if the edges of the (ModeL) flange b were made squareit would be diificult to properly secure the insole down upon the sole proper, while by bevelin g the edges, as described,this difficulty is entirely avoided. The walls A of the counter taper upward, as shown, so as to take less room in the shoe and prevent injury to the foot.

1 am aware that flanged metallic counters provided with central openings are not new, and I donot claim such invention.

.What I claim is- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the metallic counter herein described, consisting of walls A, connecting cross-bar a, and the flange I), having a beveled inner edge, substantially as described.

2. A shoe-counter having tapering walls A, cross-bar a, and beveled flange b made in a single casting of malleable iron, substantially as described.

ALFRED WV. BLAKESLEE.

' Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SoULLY. 

